when i was little i thought animals rubbed they behinds together to get pregnant, so when i asked my mom how to have a baby, she said the same way animals do, needless to say, i avoided bumping into any boy's behinds for a long time ...

Anon

I used to believe that to get pregnant you needed to touch your vagina. For a long time i avoided touching it, so i never wiped it after going to the loo. once I touched it in the shower I screamed to my mum that I had had sex and that I was pregnant. She took me to the docter and you can imagine that I was deadly embarresed because of one thing.

I was 15.

Megan

I used to believe that babies were made when a man and a woman got married and slept beside each other. I thought that the man's testicles came out of the skin while he was asleep and absorbed into the woman's stomach through her skin. I thought that they were invisible.

Anon

I used to believe that daddies bought seeds from the drugstore and put them in the moms' mashed potatoes to make babies. (Shame on my mom for that one!)

Karen Tillotson

The term "slept together" is often referred to sex in order to soften it up a bit. Because of this, i used to believe that women got pregnant if they shared a bed with a man. I never slept with my parents.

Monica

I thought that women just got pregnant without men having anything to do with it. I believed this until I was about 12. I told a friend that my friends sister was pregnant, she asked me who the father was, and I said "oh there isn't one, she's not married"... that didn't do much for my street cred!!

PaulyC

I used to believe that having sex meant kissing each others privates, and that is how a girl became pregnant. I still remember being scared to death when I was about 6, thinking I had gotten the neighbor girl pregnant by kissing her "down there" behind the bushes at her house.

still too young for fatherhood

My parents never told me that people had sex to have a baby, they just said it was when a man and a woman decided together that it was the right time.

So until I was 11 or so, I thought that a woman would only get pregnent when she decided in her mind that it was time. Sometimes I'd freak myself out by "thinking" I wanted a baby, and would then knock on wood 3 times.

omgprego

when i was about 7 i used to believe that if you wanted to get pregnant you
had to lick your elbow

Jane

I used to believe before my Mom gave me the "talk" that a woman became pregnant by the man when he put his "you know what" in her bellybutton.
Pretty innocent, huh?

Jennifer W.

When I was four, my mother was pregnant with my little sister. She was about 8 months along when I asked my dad, "Why is mommy so fat?" His answer to me was that she swallowed a watermelon seed and that it was growing in her stomach. I didn't eat watermelon again until 5th grade when the nurses came in and taught us about babies.

Anon

After explaining to my three year old, Amber that I was pregnant with out second child, my daughter asked my husband where her unborn sibling came from. before I had the chance to explain, my husband told her that I ate a special seed and now a baby was growing inside. From then until I was about 8 months along, she seemed to have a grudge against me. Finally, Amber shouted at me: "How could you eat my sister?"

Katlyn

When I was about four, my parents were applying for a home loan.(so I discovered later.) At the time, I was very confused by it all. It was all they talked about. "We should apply..." was the only thing I heard. When I asked what 'appllying' meant, mum told me it meant 'asking permission from somebody to get something.' I gradually started to believe they meant they were 'appllying' for a child. I thought that if you wanted a baby, you had to apply. My parents also said "Maybe we're not eligable..." A few times. I asked what that meant too. I was told it meant 'able to get.' It came to my conclusion that some parents didn't have children because they "wern't eligible." I felt so smart about discovering that. What it made it even funnier was that my mother actally got pregnant! I screamed with joy "So you got permission?!?"
Now, I have scared many of pregnant women by asking them: "Are you sure your eligible? Do you have permission?"

Jadra White

I used to believe that when a man and woman slept in the same bed, that sperm would sneak out of the man's peen and creep across the bedsheets and into the woman's vagina, and that was how women got pregnant. I pictured the sperm to be about a half inch long with 4 little feet and really smirky looks on their faces.

Miya

When I was younger, I thought a woman could get pregnant by herself. I didnt think we needed a guy, so when I was young, all the guys said thier nasty little comments and i said "well, we dont need you to make babies, we can do it ourselves."
everyone believed me too.

Jennica

I explained to my 3 year old daughter that I am pregnant and there is a baby in my tummy.
She came up with the idea that it crawled in there through my mouth while I was sleeping and will crawl back out in a few months.
She also thinks that she is pregnant, and with twins, just to one-up me.

Mandi Brown

When i was six and i heard my mom telling someone that they were "trying". I thought that you got pregnant and standing really close. And you blew into eachother's mouths and a green laser thing shot out from the man and into the woman. and somhome you got a baby from that! wow i was sooo wrong !

silly me!

About food: I believed that pumpkin seeds would make my mom pregnant! I remember her eating pumpkin seeds one year around Halloween, and it seemed that she had a HUGE tummy afterwards. Actually, she was pregnant for my brother, who was due in January, and she started to show in November.

Mary Beth

When I was about 4 a friend of my mother's got pregnant, so Iasked the usual questions - The answer I got was that the man planted a seed inside the woman...For the longest time I had a vision of a man and a woman standing on opposite sides of a lounge room and a seed floating through the air to find the woman...I did wonder how the seed would cope if the room was full of people. The scary thing is, even after I had learnt about the act of sex, it took a long time to connect that sex was related to getting pregnant.

Ka'

I used to think women became pregnant by making out with a guy and the gender of the baby was determined by who kissed more.

Allison